An astrophotographer has captured a video of the ISS passing in front of the Sun and it's absolutely breathtaking.
The International Space Station is captivating, not only in the way that the astronauts aboard it carry out their objectives, but also in how astrophotographers are able to capture it in such beautiful moments. One of the most recent ISS videos shows the station passing in front of three massive sunspots, bathing the station in a background of bright sunlight.
Earlier this week, astronauts Steve Bowen and Woody Hoburg completed a spacewalk on the International Space Station to complete the installation of a set of iROSA solar panels. As the event went down, astrophotographer Theirry Legault packed up his equipment and drove six hours to a spot in the Netherlands, where he captured the ISS as it transited the sun, just one hour after the spacewalk began.
While the ISS may look extremely close to the sun in the video and photos, which Legault shared on Facebook and, the station is actually still 93 million miles from the sun, as it orbits just 250 miles above the Earth. While it might seem like dumb luck to capture such an iconic look at the ISS, Legault says it takes a lot of precision planning and clear weather.
“Using real-time images of the sun, I estimated the position of the main sunspot groups towards vertical and horizontal directions,” Legault explained to. From there, it was all about comparing the planned trajectory to others, which allowed him to place himself on the visibility path for such a capture. The result, of course, is the beautiful ISS video that you can see for yourself.
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